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When Generations Collide
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Fogg, Piper – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
As members of Generations X and Y face a workplace dominated by boomers, they are all starting to chafe. Some colleges are having trouble attracting, managing, and sometimes retaining people younger than 35. Members of the younger generations grew up watching their parents sacrifice for their careers, and they want something different: balance and…
Descriptors: Baby Boomers, Higher Education, Surveys, Tenure
Gender Role Stereotypes in the "Dick and Jane" Basal Reader Series and Sustained Impression upon Women of the Baby Boom Generation
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Hutchinson, Mary Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explored the perceptions of women of the Baby Boom generation regarding the potential impact of gender role stereotypes contained in the children's reading series utilized in elementary school classrooms from 1946 through 1964. Particular emphasis was placed upon the prominent reading series of the Baby Boom Era, the Scott, Foresman and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Early Reading, Baby Boomers, Females
Generational Diversity in Associate Degree Nursing Students: Teaching Styles and Preferences in Pennsylvania
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Kitko, Jennifer V. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Nursing educators face the challenge of meeting the needs of a multi-generational classroom. The reality of having members from the Veteran and Baby Boomer generations in a classroom with Generation X and Y students provides an immediate need for faculty to examine students' teaching method preferences as well as their own use of teaching methods.…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Teaching Styles, Web Based Instruction
Plus 50: Year One Evaluation Report
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American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2009
The American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC) Plus 50 Initiative is a three-year initiative launched in June 2008 and funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. It was created to support a pilot group of two-year institutions to develop or expand campus programs that engage plus 50 learners. The initiative focuses on three types of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Participant Satisfaction, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
The Plus 50 Initiative: Executive Summary of the Year One Evaluation Report
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American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2009
The American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC) Plus 50 Initiative is a three-year initiative launched in June 2008 and funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. It was created to support a pilot group of two-year institutions to develop or expand campus programs that engage plus 50 learners. The initiative focuses on three types of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Participant Satisfaction, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
Manufacturing Success
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Reese, Susan – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers, 2007
According to the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), "manufacturing is the engine that drives American prosperity". When NAM and its research and education arm, The Manufacturing Institute, released the handbook, "The Facts About Modern Manufacturing," in October 2006, NAM President John Engler noted, that…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Manufacturing Industry, Young Adults, Employment Patterns